Kinsey Quotes

1. "My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!"
Author: Angela Kinsey

2. "Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion."
Author: Bill Condon

3. "And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves."
Author: Bill Condon

4. "I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine."
Author: Bill Condon

5. "Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything."
Author: Bill Condon

6. "Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is."
Author: Bill Condon

7. "Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church."
Author: Bill Condon

8. "Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality."
Author: Bill Condon

9. "Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution."
Author: Bill Condon

10. "One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey."
Author: Bill Condon

11. "My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me shaken and nauseated. I satisfied myself with just shifting my eyes around. I thought of all the books I'd read, all the mysteries. Spencer wouldn't have ended up this way. Neither would Kinsey Milhone. Or Henry O. Or Stephanie Plum, Well, yeah, maybe Stephanie Plum."
Author: Charlaine Harris

12. "The Kinsey staff asked questions of children, learning about sexuality in the family. And other psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, including Benjamin Spock, explored this burgeoning field. As a result, it was known that children will naturally touch their genitals to experience a sense of pleasure. It was also known, from working with victims of childhood incest that small children will act in inappropriate sexual ways with adults if they are trained through abuse to do so. The methods used on Cheryl and the other 'lab rats' were meant to create An alter personality that would both perform and tolerate sexual acts that are only appropriate for consenting adults. More important in their thinking, by limiting the experience to just one personality (ego state), the personality normally seen would behave like any other child who had not been sexually abused in any way."
Author: Cheryl Hersha

13. "After over six hundred hours of listening, John knew two more things: That the most profound truth lay in the labyrinths that coiled behind a green door in the interviewee's mind the very second that Alfred Kinsey said, "Tell me about your fantasies"; and, two, that with the proper information and the correct stimuli he could get carefully chosen people to break through those doors and act out their fantasies, past moral strictures and the boundaries of conscience, taking him past his already absolute knowledge of mankind's unutterable stupidity into a new night realm that he as yet was incapable of imagining. Because the night was there to be plundered; and only someone above its laws could exact its bounty and survive."
Author: James Ellroy

14. "Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other."
Author: Liam Neeson

15. "Larry said he could understand the complaint, but what he did not understand was that all the people who quit - every single one - had unused vacation time. Up until the day they left, they did everything McKinsey asked of them before deciding that it was too much.Larry implored us to exert more control over our careers. He said McKinsey would never stop making demands on our time, so it was up to us to decide what we were willing to do. It was our responsibility to draw the line."
Author: Sheryl Sandberg

16. "Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)"
Author: Sue Grafton

17. "For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first"Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance"
Author: Sue Grafton

18. "I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone)"
Author: Sue Grafton

19. "While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)"
Author: Sue Grafton

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